Regarding Slovenian MFA’s press release from 12 May 2006

The Croatian MFAEI wishes to remind that the border crossing Plovanija (Croatia) – Sečovlje (Slovenia) was determined as an international road traffic border crossing, which the Slovenian Government confirmed in September the same year by passing and publishing the Decree on Determining the Border Crossings for International and Interstate Road and Railway Traffic on the Border with the Republic of Croatia.

We wish to draw attention to yesterday’s press release 116/06, stating that the Plovanija border crossing had been the subject of several letters by both countries’ prime ministers, in which the Croatian side confirmed it is located on the Croatian national territory, south of the Dragonja River, and none of which, neither the one from 1994 that the Slovenian side is referring to, described it as a temporary crossing point.

That said crossing is an international border crossing, and not a control point, as is currently claimed by the Slovenian side, can also bee seen at the official web pages of the Slovenian Police in a document entitled Predstavitev slovenskih meja in mejnih prehodov (http://www.policija.si/si/organiziranost/uup/meja/prehodi.html), in which the Slovenian Police confirms it is an international border crossing.